Talk:Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization

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The following info is quoted from a Washington Times article (April 4, 2002):

The KEDO talks focus on two light-water reactors it is building in North Korea. In the 1994 deal, known as the Agreed Framework, the United States agreed to help fund the modern atomic power plants and send yearly shipments of fuel oil until the plants are completed.
The $4.6 billion project was supposed to be finished by next year, but delays have pushed back completion until at least 2008.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has been monitoring the facilities shut down in 1994: an experimental gas-graphite power reactor, a fuel-fabrication facility and a reprocessing plant. But Washington is concerned that Pyongyang hasn't provided a record of plutonium — the primary fuel needed to make atom bombs — and that it may be hiding nuclear bomb-making materials.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Bush decided not to certify Pyongyang's compliance with the framework — in a first for a U.S. president — but still ship 500,000 tons of fuel oil, as required by the accord.
The White House insisted that the decision didn't mean the United States had evidence that North Korea was violating the agreement, only that Washington did not have enough information to make a judgment.